Former SA champ dies at 56.

Former SA featherweight champion Norman Bromfield has died at the age of 56.
Bromfield, who suffered a heart attack and passed away in Pretoria last Saturday, won the SA featherweight title when he beat Israel Khonkhobe at the Badminton Hall in Pretoria in 1984.
He was also an SA amateur champion, winning the featherweight title in 1975 and the lightweight championship in 1977. As a professional he had 27 fights, winning 21 – 13 inside the distance – and losing six.
Norman Cyril Bromfield was born in Pietermaritzburg on February 2 1958 and spent most of his adult life in Pretoria.
A southpaw, he made his professional debut at the West Ridge Park Tennis Stadium in Durban on February 27 1978, knocking out Hennie Meyer in the third round.
He won two more fights that year and impressed in 1979 when he beat Charles Borais, Alex Sibiya, Vuyisile Nthunzi and Alex “Stompie” Venter, a former SA featherweight champion.
His first defeat was on December 1 1979 when Thomas Sithebe, the SA "black" featherweight champion, beat him in a bout for the Transvaal featherweight title. However, Sithebe came in overweight and forfeited the title.
In 1980, Bromfield won four fights and lost two. He remained unbeaten in his next seven, including a seventh-round stoppage win over Lehlohonolo Nkatlo in a bout for the vacant Transvaal title.
He lost his next two fights, included a points defeat over eight rounds against former SA champion Bashew Sibaca, a 97-fight veteran.
Bromfield then retained the Transvaal title against Gerald Isaacs and became SA champion when he stopped Khonkhobe in the eleventh round on February 1 1984.
After a successful defence against Paul Ramokgoa, who was disqualified in the first round for head-butting, Bromfield lost the title to Gerald Isaacs in a return match. Isaacs won on a split decision over twelve rounds at the Eldorado Park Stadium on April 19 1986 and Bromfield never fought again.